Method of coloring woven wire fences



1932- c. A. KELLOGG ET AL 5 METHOD OF CQLORING' WOVEN WIRE FENCES Filed March 9, 1931 w herzziras:

Patented Aug. 9, 1932 UNITED STATES CHESTER A. KELLOGG AND GEORGE N. WILLIAMS, OF KOKOMO, INDIANA, ASSIGNORS TO CONTINENTAL STEEL CORPORATION,

INDIANA METHOD OF COLORING Application filed March 9,

This invention relates to a method of applying one or more colors to selected line and/or picket wires entering into the con-' our invention is advantageous also.

As indicative of a simple and effective manner by which the present invention may be carried out, we have shown in the accompanying drawing In Figure 1 a diagrammatic plan view of a wire fence machine to which various line and picket wires are fed and from which a completed fabricated fencing is discharged;

In Fig. 2 a portion of fabricated fencing of conventional design having a single color applied to two of its twisted line wires or cables; and

- In Fig. 3 a side elevation, partly in section,

of a paint box differing slightly in construction from those shown in Fig. 1.

The fabricated fencing to which our invention is particularly adapted is of that kind which utilizes a plurality of longitudinally extending twisted line wires or cables A with whichare interwoven a series of transverse picket wires B. The longitudinal cables are commonly produced from two wires twisted together with openings at intervals through which the picket wires are extended. The

7 various longitudinal cables, of which a variable number may be used, are designated as a, b, 0, etc., and the picket wires by other designations t, u, o, 'w, :17, etc. (see Fig. 2).

In the production of such fencing, it is customary to feed the line wires into the machine from one end, twice as many wires entering the machine as appear in the several twisted cables of the completed product. In the diagrammatic view of Fig. 1, the line wires so entering the machine are designated by the numerals a, a, b, b, c, 0', etc. These Wires are passed in pairs through twister heads3 which twist the wires upon each other OF KOKOMO, INDIANA, A CORPORATION O through the several pairs of twisted cables, 1

then cut into proper lengths, and finally turned around at one end to produce an ornamental top edge. The fencing so fabricated is drawn through the machine to bewound upona'reelR in the usual way. An example' of such a machine, which is well known in the art,.is' found in the patent to'Tausch No. 1,351,810 of September 7, 1920.

The present invention is adapted for use with sucha wire fencing during its production. The coloring to be applied may be in the form of paint contained within an elongated box 5 having one or more rollers 6 wholly or. partially submerged in the paint. Beneath these rollers, the wires to be colored are passed. Thewires may enter and leave the box through openings in the ends thereof, as shown in Fig. 3, or over other rollers 7 at the top edges of its two ends, as elsewhere illustrated. Such a paint box is positioned in the line of travel of one or more of the wires entering the machine to be woven into the completed fencing. Control of the thickness of the coating may be exercised as required by operating conditions through the use of a suitable wiper 8 at the exit, end of the box (see Fig.

As shown in Fig. 1, by way of example, four of the wires forming the two lowermost twisted cables of the fence are passed through the paint bath to receive therefrom the desired color. The remaining line wires entering into the fence structure remain uncolored at this stage and subsequently. Ob-

viously the paint box may be designed to coat greater or lesser number of wires passmg into the machine, and, 1f desired, more than one box may be used, each containing an individual color, so that the resulting pickets in accord;

of the machine proceeds at the same speed. The wires subjected to the chromatic paint bath are coated completely, and, on the other hand, the wires not to be colored are untouched by paint at any point. There is thus afforded a complete control over the application of the paint. It is possible, for example, to paint the wires forming the twisted'ca'b'les,

so that each of the two wires which is twisted is completely coated asto its entire periphg; eryzsomething; which cannot be done. by; a: v

dipping or spraying operation.

We claim: I 7 i g The continuous method of applying color to certain wires of a fabricated fencing -dur- I ing the processof weaving the. same which consists in passlng selected'wires through a chromatic bath prior-to the weaving opera r tlon, 1n w1p 1ng, the wlre surfaces promptly after such chromatic treatment, and in weaV- ing the wires so coloredwith others not colorled into a fabricated fencing wherein the colored and uncolored wires occupy certain relative fixed positions definitely spaced apart; I

CHESTER A, KELLOGG.

GEORGE N, wInLrnMs; V 

